Who wrote the novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?

The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Mark Twain. Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the American author who developed the story as a companion and sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Twain worked on the manuscript intermittently from 1876 until 1883. The book first appeared in the United Kingdom and Canada in December 1884, followed by its first United States publication in February 1885. Its narrator, Huckleberry “Huck” Finn, tells the story in a distinctive first-person voice shaped by regional dialects and vernacular speech.

The plot follows Huck as he travels down the Mississippi River with Jim, an enslaved man seeking freedom. Their journey gives Twain a framework for exploring race, slavery, conscience, and the gap between social rules and moral judgment. Readers sometimes confuse the author with the book’s characters or with Tom Sawyer, who also appears in the story. Twain’s real name was Samuel Clemens, but Mark Twain is the canonical author credit.